Day 13 - Broken Hill to Peterborough

Quick stop at Repco for some Grease then Total Workwear - Wayne needed another long sleeved shirt and we both needed warm jumpers, yes I am a frog....11 deg and I'm freezing.

Had a problem with the power plug from car to van, few adjustments and we were on our way. I would like to say it was a nice drive but my god it was boring, as there were no live animals to look at I had to resort to counting Roadkill. So I counted 49 but rule was they had to still have fur or feathers to count, no piles of bones were counted. Sorry had to share the journey accurately.

Crossed over the South Australian border and went through Quarantine for fruit fly at Oodla Wirra which is 209km from the border, very confusing why it is so far into SA before they check. We had been advised by a few people that they were very strict and check the car and whole caravan. Maybe we were lucky and got a nice man - he didn't look in the car, I went with him to the Van and he asked if I had any fruit or veg, I told him we had some potatoes, he looked at them and said they were fine, looked in the fridge, didn't even open the vegie draw - he closed and locked up the fridge for me. Asked about honey, I had a new bottle purchased at supermarket, he said all good. So while I locked up the Van he went and chatted to Wayne about where we were headed, weather, road kill etc. Very chilled guy.

Quick drive into Peterborough and headed to our off grid camp for the night which is opposite the Steamtown Heritage Rail Centre, we are going tonight for a Sound and Light show. The show was well organised and very interesting, kind of sad that the Steam trains died but that's progress I guess. You will be glad to know we are done looking at Trains 🤣

Apparently we had a 3.0 Earthquake around here, but we slept through it.

Booked the next 5 nights at Turton Point Van park so we can check out Yorke Peninsular from a central spot.Read more